Palette Reference Guide

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Dunno if this is the place to post this, but, um....guess, intro first since this is my first post.

Well, I've been watching the development of this game since it was originally the Lawyer Friendly Equines:fim one. Was saddened by the C&D, surprised and amazed at Lauren helping and feeling glad at the game's progress from its kickstarter to just now. Incidentally, I am a backer as well (hope I can get to hear the wonderful soundtrack soon to add to my library!)

Ok, enough about me. See, I'm making a list of what special palette swaps each character has. I have a few so far, but if anyone can help make the list grow, I'd be grateful. Here's what I got so far.

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tian:
Origin goddess is amatarasu from okami
athletic footwear i think is an inside joke from years ago during production. need confirmation because i don't remember
spyral and spyraler looks to be spyro
game of deaths is bruce lee

Oleander:
captain is captain kirk
mab is queen chrsyalis
Dj is Dj pon-3
ark-ham is joker
hallowed is the wicked witch i think

Arizona
Lactose free is the lactaid cow
cheerful is the laughing cow
how now is in reference to how now brown cow
moo moo farm is miltank

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Oleander: Ark Ham is obviously Joker from Batman
Powerful is Trixie from Lawyer Friendly Equines
Mab looks a lot like Queen Chrysalis also from Lawyer Friendly Equines
DJ is Vinyl Scratch also also from Lawyer Friendly Equines
Flora also makes me think of another Lawyer Friendly Equines character lmao

Arizona's Blue Cow makes me think of Paul Bunyan's Ox buddy, Babe. I've never really seen another cow-like character who was blue haha.

There's a million palettes that look very familiar but I can't tell what they areee
I'm dying at all these tennis shoe palettes tho
Edit: Dang it, I was in the middle of researching stuff that I didn't notice a new post was submitted D:

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I didn't even realize but that's actually Braixen. Note the white forelegs/black hindlegs, the white underbelly fur and the brown spot on her tail is supposed to be the stick it wields. Good eye though, I'm bad at figuring out references lmao

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Now then, according to my stats, the one with more identifiable references is Tian with 11, with Olly a close second with 10 and Ari has third with 6. Pom and Pap both have 4 and smugdeer only has 2. Hope there's more references identified.

On the subject of palette changes, if I had a choice I'd give Paprika one consisting of a red head area, blue body, white blanket and black hooves. I'd call it "Cuddly Wuddly". A cookie to anyone who gets my ref and why it makes sense.

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I guess I can try and compile everything here into one post. Some of these I don't know the answer to, or if they're even references to anything at all. Some of them SEEM like it, or at least have a kind of "codename" that suggests they're a reference to something.

Some of these are obvious, some of them I figured out myself, and others I got from this very thread! Thanks, helpful people who watch more shows and play more games than I do!

VELVET
Most of her colors seem to not actually be specific references, they're just really pretty colors for her, most of which being very winter-based. Some of them seem like they have codenames, though, so I included them here just in case they're references? The rest I left out.

TIANHUO
She seems to be loaded with references, though I'm not 100% sure, of course. If it sounds like a codename or looks like a reference to something, I've included it, though some of these could actually just be wicked cool colors and not actually references.

ARIZONA
Like Velvet, some of these colors seem to exist just to look really nice on her (so I left them out), while the rest seem to reference other TFH cowfolk we haven't seen (like say the "Minnesota" palette), or they're just codenamed after states for the fun of it.

PAPRIKA
Left out a few that seem like they're not references to anything, but who knows at this poooooint. The ones named after seasonings likely don't reference anything (much like Arizona's palettes named after states)

POM
What a cutie. Again, some of these don't seem to reference anything. Also I haven't checked what any of her doggos look like in these palettes, but they might also reference something to go with whatever reference Pom has (like in Catch Em All, they're colored like Growlithe & Arcanine). also good lord she has like no palettes

Princess Guardian is Dragon from Shrek
Snek is either based off of a real snake, There are a few with similar color schemes, or is

Spirited = Spirited Away

Phlogiston, I was going to suggest a nerdy answer about the since proven false theories about fire in which a non existent substance called Phlogiston was hypothetically created but then I found this

Combustion = Avatar, either of these people

Most of the unknown ones stump me completely. These two are the only ones I could come up with, both are a bit unlikely.

_n_c_rn Ch_mp_n = Unicorn Champion, only thing I can find for that is a Dartboard/Darts thing

The Eastern as someone else mentioned somewhere seems to refer to the Kirin
Most the pictures I can find vary drastically in color and number of horns, but most tend to have a blue-green body with a yellow-red mane and tail. The rest of the pictures just show it being blue in general so this ones up in the air.

mauve (mōv)
n. moderate grayish violet to moderate reddish purple

I don't actually know if there's a reference.

Moonlit Ace
Had no Idea, spent a good 15 minutes looking up night-bombers from WWII then I decided to type the name into google images. It's a Lawyer Friendly Equines OC

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I wonder who will be the first to figure out what my palette really is...

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Yeah I had a feeling that one was actually a reference to something, especially since IRL hawks etc. aren't black and purple.
I don't know what though. Is there some comics character with that name/color scheme?

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I believe Oleander's "Eternal Lie" palette is a Call of Cthulhu reference.
Both in the colours, and the name itself references a particularly famous quotation: "That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."

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"White Mint" was mine. I was thinking of Pearl (Steven Universe) at the time, but I didn't want to try to awkwardly recreate another character's likeness on top of Oleander's palette. I just picked a couple crayons from the same box, didn't worry about replicating all the details or using every color from her palette, and arranged something simple.

Less "make Oleander look just like this other character" and more "this other character has a cool palette, I want a couple of those colors too".

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So, way back, last time I played there used to be a palette for Tianhuo in the beta, which had magenta fire, light blue body and no/white irises, seemed like an obvious reference to Sylvia from Wander Over Yonder, which made it my favorite palette, but now after looking through the palettes it's not there anymore, can any dev shed light on why it was removed?

So, way back, last time I played there used to be a palette for Tianhuo in the beta, which had magenta fire, light blue body and no/white irises, seemed like an obvious reference to Sylvia from Wander Over Yonder, which made it my favorite palette, but now after looking through the palettes it's not there anymore, can any dev shed light on why it was removed?

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The only palettes I know of that have been removed are the tennis shoe palettes, but that's a temporary removal.